Stand Your Ground

I apologize for not posting so much lately.

You may not even read this, or if you do, it may not come to my attention that you did.

But if you did, thanks for stopping by.

I get up and put Bill Bennett's show on in the morning.

I find it very informative and comment often there.

I've stopped pasting the audio clips here, but I'm on almost weekly.

Last Monday, Bill asked me to call back later in the show to talk to Byron York and ask a question I had posed earlier, which I did. 

It's not like Byron and I had a discussion on air, and I actually had the impression that Byron had answered my question as far as he was willing to.

I record the show, and listen to the parts I didn't hear live, later in the day, usually while doing some paperwork and on my drive home.

That's when I heard Byron's answer clearer and wished I could have asked  more directly what I felt was unanswered,

It was funny, because I was challenging Byron to back up something he said about defunding Obamacare.
I let him to know I respected his opinion and opined that he should sub for Bill more, whereupon Bill started laughing and said not to worry, it would be soon.

Later it was announced that Byron would sub for Bill the next Wednesday.

It was on that show that I heard Byron actually answer my question better, without referencing it.

We have a move on to defund Obamacare, and it has caused, I'm sure you've heard, a division in the Republican Party.

Byron had said that ACA (maybe if we stop referring to it as Obamacare, we can fool his uninformed supporters into thinking it's not related to Obama and get them to reject it) could not be defunded, as the way it was funded, it's an entitlement that is not discretionary.

Others are arguing that we can kill the administrative funding.

Most are arguing that we'll never get enough Senate votes to accomplish it and override a veto.

The House is supposed to originate the budget.

But we don't have budgets, since the Democrats won't agree with them.

So we have "Continuing Resolutions" (CRs), compromising with the Democrats.

Well, if the Republican House refused to fund Obamacare in the CR and the Democrat Senate refused to go along, the government would "shut down".

And the Repubs would get blamed.

Some Repubs say that we'd never get a different message out, even though the Dems would be as guilty, since the government could be funded if they gave up funding the unpopular Obamacare.

Other Repubs say this isn't the way to go since Obamacare is the law of the land, and we should press our efforts opposing "immigration reform".

Can't do two things at once, eh?

My point here (and there) is that many people are, or have been crying "Defund!" with differing visions of how that would work.

• not all of Obamacare can be defunded
• there are ways of crippling it though
• some argue that it would never get get past the Senate
• it doesn't have to, if we're willing to stand our ground and threaten shutting gov't down.
• we need to demonstrate opposition
• we will be opposed and demonized (again)
• it may distract from the opposition to immigration reform (enlisting immigrant democrat voters)

What do you suggest?